David Millar Quotes
It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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I love London, I love the British people.
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Men have not stacked the decks against women.
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To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
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Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
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Groupon's model: Getting the group discount rate first, finding the group second. The daily deal goes out and, if a minimum number of people sign up, they can all share in the group rate. Vendor gets customers, customers get a discount, Groupon gets a cut.
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Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
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I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.
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People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.
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I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.
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There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.
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Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.
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Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
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People mess up. They say things when their guard is down.
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I got no thrill from solving an integral equation, but I did get a thrill from building an exotic piece of equipment that worked.
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I am not saying Russia is not important, but Trump's base is very well defended against that: 'the liberal media is out to get him', 'it's fake news', and all the rest.
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It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.
